The app features information on over 3500 books of Scottish interest, and its database can collate them by character, place, setting, author, date and theme.

Bookspotting also contains maps to the nearest independent bookshop, walking tours of literary sites in Scotland’s cities, as well as quizzes and a daily selection of facts on Scottish writers and books.

Publishing Scotland chief executive Marion Sinclair described the app as “the place to discover the connection between Jules Verne and Oban, or between Mary Shelley and Dundee, and a guide to the independent bookshop that’s nearest to you.”